Sunday, June 23, 1929 



'Human Cannon Ball' 

 ^ Substitute May Die 



■j Springfield, Sept. 20 (A.P.)— Heinrich 

 * Ackonhausen, thirty, .substitute "Iiuman 

 JcannonbaJl," was hovei-inp: hr-twecn life 

 4 and.death in a local hospital to.Uiy ,is tlic 

 t» result or an accident that ntlculcl Iiis ad 

 "^at the Eastern States Expo.sition lale yes- 

 terday when, instead of being projected 

 ^£rom the cannon and landins in a n 

 1 something went wrong with the ' thriller" 

 & and Ackensausen hunj? half out or the 

 nmzzle and dropped limply to the ground 

 when the f?un was lowered from the 

 i firing position. He received fractures of 

 ^ the skull and Jaw and serious head lacer- 

 ^ utions and his name was placed on the 

 X dangerous list at the hospital. 

 JE Ackenhausen had been substituting 

 if for about four weeks for Captain Wilhelm 

 Wilmo, whose arm was broken while 

 doing the same stunt at Syracuse, N. Y., 



and who was helping to operate the ap- 

 parata.9 yesterday. Because of Aeken- 

 hauson's condition it- has not yet been 

 determined what led to his injuries, but 

 it was apparent that his head came in 

 contact with the barrel of the cannon 

 } when the spring was released that pro- 

 I Jected him from it. Ackenhausen's home 



llanover, Germany. 



